Learn how to use creative responses within a trauma informed approach to:
• assist with regulating emotions and automatic responses
• strengthen safe and healing interpersonal relationships
• support transformative re-authoring of the past, present and future.
“Getting Creative with Trauma”
Professional Development for Therapists with Carla
PROGRAM
9.30am Arrival, overview and introductions;
10.00am Creating safety together – making a space.
10.20am What do we know about trauma? Let’s look at it.
What’s missing? What’s needed? Art based perspectives.
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10.50-11.00am Morning tea break
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11.00am Findings from my Doctoral research.
Drawing together theoretical approaches through creative practices.
11.30am Somatic and sensorimotor approaches- experiential activities for regulation
and calming the nervous system.
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12.30-1.30pm Lunch break
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1.30pm Relational approaches
– humanistic, attunement and attachment oriented
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2.45-3.00pm Afternoon tea break
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3.00pm Narrative perspectives
– power and discourse, creating new and preferred stories
4.15pm Adapting what we know to work in an infinite array of inimitable settings – Artistry
Integration of the day
Group sharing